Pari Nizhny Novgorod defeats MINSK in the regular season home game – 84:67 (21-11, 21-13, 31-21, 11-22).
The best scorers:
Pari Nizhny Novgorod: Jermaine Love (18), Aleksandr Chadov (13 + 6 rebounds), Dmitrii Khvostov (11)
MINSK: Darol Hernandez-Zinenko (14 + 8 подборов), Kiryl Sitnik (13), Vadzim Stubeda (11 + 8 rebounds)
Game process
Pari NN came to the game in the alternate jerseys durning «Together for Nizhny» project. MINSK arrived to the road game without wins and the captain – Aliaksei Trastsinetcki could not help the team due to flu.
At the start of the game, the teams demonstrated fast and attacking basketball. The guests scored in the first possession, and then Nizhny scored immediately. MINSK took the lead for several times, but at the middle of the first quarter let the opponents trail by only 6 points. After that, the guests took a time-out as Pari NN scored in every possession. This pause helped MINSK to improve the defense: for the next 4 minutes, the Volga team scored only 2 points. Nizhny controlled the end of the first quarter and Jermaine Love shot let the hosts to have a double-digit lead.
For more than 2 minutes in the second quarter, the Minsk team managed to held the hosts and came back trailing by 8 points, Vadzim Stubeda and Darol Hernandez-Zinenko helped the team with it. But at this moment, Pari NN turned on the full pace: Jermaine Love and Evgenii Baburin shots helped the Volga team to make a 10:2 run, and 3 three-points In a row made by Dmitrii Khvostov and Maksim Lichutin made the max lead at the halftime – 42:24.
The key moment
At the start of the third quarter, Pari NN led by 20 points. The team demonstrated high pace and scored 31 points in the quarter.
MINSK also improved their shot percentage, but in the fourth quarter trailed by 28 points. To make a comeback was really hard for the Belarussian team.
Hero
Jermaine Love. Pari NN guard became the best scoring player of the team with 18 points and 18 minutes on the court. He also has 4 assists, 2 steals, 1 rebound and 1 block.
What’s next:
Pari Nizhny Novgorod: road game against CSKA on November 14.
MINSK: home game versus Lokomotiv Kuban on November 20.
